"Sir Frederick" <mmcneill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On 9 Aug 2005 14:02:59 -0700, "The Daily Excerpt" <bzbz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>N. K. Brendleton: "According to reductive materialism, a particular
>>mental state will correspond to a specific physical state in brains. It
>>therefore allows the future possibility of cyborgs -- people with
>>extensive electronic replacement parts -- becoming zombies: beings who
>>may act as if they are conscious, but are really not. Functionalism, or
>>non-reductive materialism, rejects this possiblity because the
>>replacement parts will perform the same purpose as the original neural
>>****tions of the brain. Functionalism recogizes Multiple Realizability,
>>that the mechanistic material being utilized is irrelevent and any
>>physical system (like a computer) that runs the same program as the
>>brain will produce its various characteristics, including the notorious
>>qualia."
>>
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> What do you mean 'future'?
> We are all automatons with
> self(personification and 'mind')
> and qualia(sensor mapping)
> stories dancing in our brains.
> As I have said many times :
> "We need our stories."
> --
> Best,
> Frederick Martin McNeill
> Poway, California, United States of America
> mmcneill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.fuzzysys.com
> http://members.cox.net/fmmcneill/
> *************************
> Phrase of the week :
> "Your neocortex is reading this book."
> -"On Intelligence"-Jeff Hawkins (1957-)
> :-))))Snort!)
> *************************
Yea, but then there's that pesky 'fear and pain'. If only our technology
could rid us of that, I'd be the first to get in line for a brain staple
of
some sort. Zombie-ism seems like a good alternative compared to having to
deal with all the nuts running around in today's world. But...alas...pain
and fear still exist...and thusly, I would resist, fearing the demise of
myself. The present world, based in traditions [story's or whatever term
you want to put on it], allow for a protective overcoat of socialability
that is like a rock to hide under. It works allowing me a niche is all.
The new "brain theologians" are just a bigger fish wanting to crowd me out
of that niche in the ocean.
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